What Concerns Are Underneath The Positive Industry Sentiment?

WASHINGTON, DC–Let’s state this upfront: with a score of 51, the Real Estate Roundtable’s Q2 2018 Sentiment Index was positive overall for commercial real estate. “Real estate fundamentals continue to remain strong into 2018, where balance between supply and demand in almost every sector is healthy, while debt and equity for real estate as an asset class remains abundant,” said Roundtable President and CEO Jeffrey DeBoer.

But digging into the sentiment index one finds an undercurrent of anxiety.